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Miami University Middletown’s Gardner-Harvey Library will offer civil rights documentary screenings in partnership with Robert “Sonny” Hill Community Center, Cincinnati
State Community and Technical College, and Miami’s Oxford Campus. The powerful documentaries, The
Abolitionists, Slavery by Another Name, Freedom Riders, and The Loving Story, include dramatic scenes
of incidents in the 150-year effort to achieve equal rights for all. Freedom Riders received an Emmy in
2012, and The Loving Story and The Abolitionists have been nominated for Emmys in 2013.

Miami Middletown is one of 473 institutions across the country awarded a set of four films chronicling
the history of the civil rights movement. Film screenings will begin in February 2014, linked to Black
History Month, and conclude in October 2014, linked to Character Counts Month and Diversity
Awareness Month. Following each screening, experts will engage Middletown residents and Miami
University and Cincinnati State students in discussions of how the civil rights struggle continues to
influence society.

Created Equal: America’s Civil Rights Struggle is an initiative of the National Endowment for the
Humanities that uses the power of documentary films to encourage community discussion of America’s
civil rights history. NEH has partnered with the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History to develop
programmatic and support materials for the sites.

Each of the films was produced with NEH support, and each tells remarkable stories of individuals who
challenged the social and legal status quo of deeply rooted institutions, from slavery to segregation.
Created Equal programs bring communities together to revisit our shared history and help bridge deep
racial and cultural divides in American civic life. Visit www.neh.gov/created-equal for more information.